HOW Users will be able to search by location. A guide to searches and a glossary to help researchers decode abbreviations used on the census forms can be found here: archives.gov/research/census/1940/finding-aids.html.

FORMAT The 1940 census is the first to be released online by the National Archives. Prior censuses have been put on microfilm and could only be viewed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., at its 12 satellite offices or at libraries.

ADDITIONAL INFO Questions about searching the database can be emailed to the archives at 1940Census@NARA.gov. Information can be found at census.gov/1940census.

OTHER SITES Ancestry.com will be uploading 1940 census records onto its website -- ancestry.com/1940 -- today. Data will be free to the public until December 2013.

Lexington, tone it down tonight. Show your brains, not your azzzz. You are better than what you displayed the other night!

The Big Blue has come a long way (and taken down several other Kentucky teams along the way). Either way, the entire state of Kentucky is behind them 100%.

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If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design itís much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.<br />Quote: Amory Lovins

If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design itís much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.<br />Quote: Amory Lovins

We apologize for the problems you have encountered with the 1940 census web site and share your frustration. We have seen extraordinary demand for the 1940 census records, with over 37 million hits since 9:00 a.m. on 4/2/12.

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Wynton Marsalis~"Let us Give, Forgive, and Be Thankful" Zayra is remembered

We apologize for the problems you have encountered with the 1940 census web site and share your frustration. We have seen extraordinary demand for the 1940 census records, with over 37 million hits since 9:00 a.m. on 4/2/12.

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Wowzers!! That's a lotta demand for the records.

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" Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Daniel Moynihan

We apologize for the problems you have encountered with the 1940 census web site and share your frustration. We have seen extraordinary demand for the 1940 census records, with over 37 million hits since 9:00 a.m. on 4/2/12.

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Wowzers!! That's a lotta demand for the records.

I've been waiting for this for years. Lots of people are into genealogy.

We apologize for the problems you have encountered with the 1940 census web site and share your frustration. We have seen extraordinary demand for the 1940 census records, with over 37 million hits since 9:00 a.m. on 4/2/12.

::snipping2::

Wowzers!! That's a lotta demand for the records.

I've been waiting for this for years. Lots of people are into genealogy.

Yes, alot of peopel are into genealogy. Please keep in mind, Culprits follow genealogy to gleaning information as to maiden names for Passwords, etc.